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6 of 8

Track

Management

Family rungs priced

M1 · M2 · M3 · M4 · M5 · M6

53-0000

industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Senior executive who leads all marine operations functions across a fleet or region, overseeing vessel positioning, subsea, and diving operations through subordinate directors and managers. At the Vice President (M6) level, the role owns a major function or division, enterprise priorities and external factors, and drives division-wide / organization-wide. Leads the leadership of a division.

What this level does

Leads the entire Marine Operations organization through senior managers across cargo, terminal and waterfront functions, shaping long-term operating strategy
Sets multi-year fleet, terminal and facility direction whose effect carries long-term consequence for the port's competitiveness and safety record
Defines strategy for abstract, cross-functional issues spanning marine operations, engineering, regulatory affairs and commercial contracting
Negotiates with executives, USCG and major terminal/shipping partners on critical operational and regulatory matters and influences maritime policy
Holds accountability for the combined operating budget and capital plan of the marine operation, governing investment across departments

Knowledge applied: Shapes long-term operating and capital strategy for the entire marine organization across cargo, terminal and waterfront functions.
Complexity & problem solving: Addresses abstract, cross-functional problems spanning operations, engineering, regulatory and commercial domains with long-term company effect.
Collaboration & interaction: Negotiates with executives, USCG and major partners on critical matters; influences maritime policy; leads through senior managers.
Typical experience: 12–15+ years of deep leadership across marine departments or divisions.

Skills at this level

Marine Operations Coordination: — Coordinates and oversees vessel movements, cargo handling and personnel movements to keep waterfront operations running safely and on schedule.
Marine Logistics Scheduling: — Schedules loading and unloading of cargo and sequences vessel movements to ensure timely delivery and efficient resource utilization while minimizing operational disruptions.
Marine Safety & Environmental Compliance: — Ensures fleet and waterfront operations meet marine safety and environmental regulations and standards, and reports inspections and certification renewals to the Director, Port Captain and Chief Port Engineer while scheduling USCG inspection dates.
Fleet Maintenance Oversight: — Oversees the maintenance, repair and efficient operation of the marine fleet, planning work to keep vessels serviceable and compliant.
Marine Operations Budget Management: — Establishes department budgets and manages invoicing, margins, costs and forecasting for marine operations, controlling costs within budgetary limits to achieve targets.
Waterfront Staff Supervision: — Recruits, screens, interviews, hires, trains and evaluates waterfront and marine operations employees, provides guidance and feedback, and counsels or recommends discipline as required.
Operations Log Management: — Reviews the operations log, reads back log entries and maintains operational reports, records and documentation for accurate shift and vessel accountability.
Marine Navigation & Communication Systems Proficiency: — Uses modern marine navigation and communication systems to direct and monitor vessel movements and coordinate with vessels, terminals and agencies.
Marine Community Stakeholder Management: — Handles clients diplomatically and networks with vendors, operators and agencies across the marine community to sustain operational relationships and service.
Marine Operations Strategy: — Blends operational and strategic aspects of maritime operations, planning and coordinating personnel and activities across cargo, terminal, fishing-vessel and mooring facilities.

Model-authored from 19 retrieved sources, then adversarially reviewed by an independent judge panel and held to a minimum-evidence floor before publication. Distinct from corpus-extracted content, which is labelled as such.

Pay across the ladder

Marine Operations — median with , by . Real canon data.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

SOC 53-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+2.0%Ship Engineers · United States

8,410 → 8,580 jobs

1,100 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 1,086

Growth — new jobs (1%)Exits — backfill (99%)

1% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +1.6%
Growth share of hiring: 1%
Exit / retention pressure high: 99%
Openings / year: 1,100

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level M6 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$415k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$373k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$345k

Boulder, CO$340k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$340k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$325k

Lexington Park, MD$317k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$315k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $249k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates M6 (M6 — Vice President) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: A major function or division
Autonomy: Accountable for division strategy and outcomes
Complexity: Enterprise priorities and external factors
Impact: Division-wide / organization-wide
Decision rights: Owns strategy, budget, and org for a division
Leadership: Leads the leadership of a division

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

M6is the top of this family's ladder — progression from here is a lattice move (see adjacent roles below), not a rung.

Performance criteria for this profile render in the assessment kit →

People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Principal Marine Operations Engineer	jf_marine_operations::P6	$188,314†	confident0.06
Director of Marine Operations	jf_marine_operations::M5	$188,371†	confident0.06
Marine Operations Expert	jf_marine_operations::P5	$138,423†	confident0.12
Lead Marine Operations Specialist	jf_marine_operations::S5	$60,631†	confident0.12

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

Capability cluster

O*NET 53-5031

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

M6

jf_marine_operations::M6

Senior Director of Marine Operations

Marine Operations

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: M
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: field_operations
Family: marine_operations
Universal level: 6 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

Battery Storage Operations · M6review0.17

Drilling Operations · M6review0.17

Field Maintenance · M6review0.17

Field Measurement · M6review0.17

Mining Operations · M6review0.17

Field Operations · M6review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

Every number here is traceable — to a named source, a stated method, and an as-of date — and each value is labeled by how we know it: observed from data, computed by a model, projected forward, or governed canon. Nothing is a black box, and nothing is invented to fill a gap.

Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 53-5031	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

Each number carries whether it's observed, computed, projected, or canon — so you always know how much to lean on it.

Gaps shown as gaps

When a figure isn't available at the grain you need, we say so — we don't fabricate a number to fill the cell.

Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)